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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey M. Preston is suffering with an attack of tonsilltls. E. It. Bradley has forty mares at his Idle Hour farm in Kentucky. Fred Cook says Minnie Adams will not start in the Queen City Handicap. Joe McLennan is managing jockeys A. Martin nnd Gaugel at Windsor. Ex-jockey Frank ONeill is now a father. A son was born to him Sunday. King James, winner of the Tremont Slakes, is eligible for the next Derby in England. John M. 1., Grant Hugh Brownes big English steeplechaser, is working well in the east. First Mason should be seen under the colors before long. He is workiug well for trainer Howard Oots. Timothy Wen won the Colorado Derby at Denver Saturday. Paragon was seeoud and Sam Taylor was third. Cairngorm is ready for a good race and eastern work-watchers think he will be a contender for the Suburban Handicap. The French mare Ginette, is getting slow preparation and will be ready when trainer Garth decides to send her to the post. William Lakeland hopes to get another Electioneer, James R. Keenc having consented to another mating of Quesal with Voter. T. F. Kelly of Lexington, Ky., has purchased of W. A. Smith the seven-year-old liy stallion Floyd K., by Politico Onaetta, by Chesapeake. It is understood that trainer Itowe believes that Veil, generally considered superior to Court Dross, fan win the Suburban Handicap with ninety-four pounds on her back. King James won the Tremont so handsomely that John H. Madden soon received several offers for the Plaudit colt. One came from P. J. Kainey, it is was said, but Madden declined to name his figures. It is not expected that Grandpa will start in the Kensington Steeplechase at Gravosend tomorrow. He has not been out since he hurt himself in the Whitney Memorial. It is likely, too, that T. S. Martin will stay in the barn. Lightning killed the jiine-y ear-old chestnut mnre Queen Louise, by St. Saviour--Louise linens, at Hinde and linkers Millbrook Stud near Lexington, Ky., last Wednesday morning. Queen Louise was the property of George W. J. liissell, of Pittsburg. As King Edwards Derby dinner, to which. . Mr. Croker was not invited, .was one given exclusively to his brother members of the Jockey Club, it is difficult to see how Mr. Croker could be invited. He ir not a member of the Jockey Club. Sports of the Times. ,
